[CPEO-MEF] Air Guard and New England low-level jet training

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Guard seeks sites for low-level jet training

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
April 4, 2007

OTIS AIR BASE - Massachusetts Air Guard officials have petitioned the 
Federal Aviation Administration to practice low-level flying maneuvers 
over Maine and New Hampshire, Guard leaders said this week.

Less than 5 percent of the 102nd Fighter Wing's F-15 pilots have 
completed their required low-altitude training because of the lack of 
appropriate training space, according to Guard documents submitted to 
the FAA.

Air Guard leaders are asking the FAA to expand training airspace above 
sparsely populated areas in northern New England so fighter pilots can 
practice low-level maneuvers considered crucial to the fighter wing's 
homeland defense missions.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/guardseeks4.htm

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